Wall assembly



R. CONNELL WALL ASSEMBLY April 19, 1949.

Filed July 3, 1944 INVENTOR. ROBERT CONNELL 8% z HIS ATTORNEY PatentedApr. 19, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WALL ASSEMBLY Robert Connell,Portland, 0reg., assignor to California Container Corporation,

Emeryville,

4 Claims.

My invention relates to wall structures and more particularly to amethod of applying wallboard sections and the Wall assembly resultingtherefrom,

' Among the objects of my invention are:

' 1. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboardsections in the fabrication of a wall assembly;

2. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboardsections in the fabrication of a wall assembly, which method shallpermit the use of light-weight board sections of corrugated paperlaminations without mutilation of such board sections;

3. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboardsections of light-weight corrugated paper laminations, which shallresult in a firm support for such sections;

4. To provide a novel and improved method of assembling wallboardsections of laminated corrugated paper, which will inhibit warpage orbuckling;

5. To provide a novel and improved wall of wallboard sections;

6. To provide a novel and improved Wall of light-weight wallboardsections having laminations of corrugated paper.

Additional objects of my invention will be brought out in the followingdescription of a preferred embodiment of the same, taken in conjunctionwith the accompanying drawings where- Figure 1 is a three-dimensionalview illustrating the method of assembling wallboard sections inaccordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 is a three-dimensional view illustrating structural features ofthe wall assembly resulting therefrom.

My invention is particularly concerned with the assembling of wallstructures from wallboard sections having laminations of corrugatedpaper, In general, the invention contemplates the application of suchwallboard sections to a wall framework or studding by supporting thesame upon wires running along the corrugations and anchored to elementsof the framework or studding at points along the edges of such wallsections where the wires enter and emerge.

More specifically and with reference to the drawings, the wall frameworkmay comprise a plurality of vertically spaced studs I, and the wallboardsections 3 may involve one or more layers of corrugated paper 5, backedup by covering sheets 1. These sections are cut transverse to thecorrugations to a width sufficient to span adjacent studs. In applyingthese sections to the framework, preferably two or more wires 9 areanchored at spaced vertical points it and I3, respectively, to one ofthe studs and threaded through a wallboard section along correspondinglyspaced corrugations, following which, the wires are drawn taut so as tobring the wallboard section into pressure contact with the studs, andthe wires are then each anchored to the adjacent stud at the points I5or H, respectively, where it emerges from the wallboard section. Suchanchoring is preferably effected by looping such wire one or more turnsabout a tack or nail I 9 and driving the nail into the stud at theaforementioned point.

The free or hanging ends of the wires are then similarly threadedthrough another section of wallboard, such wallboard section then beingmoved into intimate edge-to-edge contact with the preceding orpreviously applied section, and the wires again drawn taut and anchoredto the next stud in the same manner as before.

The successive application of such wallboard sections forms a horizontalrow across the wall framework with the corrugations also disposedhorizontally. Additional rows may then be added in like manner, to coverthe entire framework, and the wall assembly thus resulting, may, ifdesired, be painted, papered or otherwise treated.

The aforementioned method of assembling the wallboard sections to theframework or studding, provides a very firm support for the wallboardsections and permits of the use of lightweight sections involving atleast one and preferably a plurality of laminations of corrugated paper,without necessarily mutilating the wallboard sections in the applicationthereof to the framework. The intimate edge-to-edge placement of thesections in the manner described, will serve to cover up and conceal thenails and result in a finished wall surface having no nail depressions.

Inasmuch as the supporting wires engage each Wall section along theentire length of a corrugation, vertical slippage of the wallboardsection bodily is precluded, and such manner of supporting the sectionwill further serve to inhibit warpage or buckling of the section, whichmight otherwise result from exposure to moisture or dampness.

The term wire, as used herein, is deemed to cover string or otherequivalents.

While I have disclosed my invention in a preferred form, it is apparentthat the method and the resulting wall assembly may be altered as todetails without departing substantially from the underlying basicfeatures of my invention, and I accordingly do not desire to be limitedto the details of disclosure described above, except as may benecessitated by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A wall assembly comprising a framework, a plurality ofwallboardsectioiis on saidY frame'-' work, each of said wallboardsections having wire threaded therethrough and afiixed to said frameworkintermediate said sections.

2. A wall assembly comprising a framework,

a plurality of wallboard sections on said framework, each of saidwallboard sections having-a corrugated layer with the corrugationsthereofrunning horizontally, and wire tightly threaded along certain ofsaid corrugations and aflixed to said framework intermediate saidsections to" support said section against said framework.

3. A wall assembly comprising a framework, a plurality of wallboardsections disposed in edgeto-edge relationship on said framework, each ofsaid wallboard sections having a corrugated layer and an outsidecovering sheet; and wirethreaded along certain of said corrugationsbetween said corrugated layer and said outside-covering sheet REFERENCESCITED The following references are of record in the fil'e' of thispatent:

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1,426,872 Hummert -1 Aug; 22, 1922 1,555,914 Denning Oct. 6,19252,133,088 Faber Oct. 11,1938 2,222,572 Reger' Nov. 1 19, 1940

